PHY122 and PHY124 are indeed difficult courses and most students require help from time to time. The best source of help is to go to the office hours of anyone in the course staff. Everyone in the course (Lecturers, Recitation Instructors, and Lab Instructors) hold regular office hours. You can and should go to these office hours when you need help.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| 8:30-9:00 | |||||
| 9:00-9:30 | Gilje | Mohapatra | |||
| 9:30-10:00 | Gilje | Mohapatra | |||
| 10:00-10:30 | Gilje | Mohapatra | |||
| 10:30-11:00 | Gilje | Mohapatra | |||
| 11:00-11:30 | |||||
| 11:30-12:00 | |||||
| 12:00-12:30 | |||||
| 12:30-1:00 | |||||
| 1:00-1:30 | |||||
| 1:30-2:00 | |||||
| 2:00-2:30 | Yan | Yan | |||
| 2:30-3:00 | Yan | Yan | |||
| 3:00-3:30 | |||||
| 3:30-4:00 | |||||
| 4:00-4:30 | |||||
| 4:30-5:00 | |||||
| 5:00-5:30 | |||||
| 5:30-6:00 | |||||
| 6:00-6:30 | |||||
| 6:30-7:00 | |||||
| 7:00-7:30 | |||||
| 7:30-8:00 |
Professor Hemmick has developed a tradition of holding extensive review sessions outside of class. These are typically held in the evenings or weekend before an exam. Typically two 8-hour reviews are held prior to each midterm and three 8-hour reviews are held prior to the final. During these reviews, we do physics problems from practice exams and we make them up on the spot and upon request from any source. The idea is that by the time the review is finished, everyone present should be so thoroughly familiar with the material that the exam will have become easy.
The philosophy is simple. The exams in this course are tough but fair. We will work as hard as necessary so that by the time you take them they will seem easy (and the MCAT will seem trivial). High scores on a tough exam is the explicitly stated goal of the instructor and should be the same goal for all students. Scheduling of these reviews will be done in lecture.